Major Japanese power generation company, Chubu Electric Power and Qatar Electricity and Water Company (QEWC) and Qatar General Electricity and Water Corporation (Kahramaa) have reiterated their commitment to continue their decade-long co-operation through signing of a memorandum of understanding (MoU).
While signing what was referred to as the 5th Amendment of the MoU of the Partnership Project, the three companies, who are stakeholders in many of the power generating companies in the country, pledged to continue their ongoing efforts to bring out the best possible solutions to Qatar's power requirements.
Thursday's ceremony, which was also graced by Minister for Energy and Industry HE Dr Mohamed bin Saleh al-Sada, Kahramaa President and Senior engineer Essa bin Hilal al-Kuwari and QEWC General Manager Fahd Mohamed al-Mohannadi, was attended by a host of officials of the Chubu Electric Power, including Kozo Ban, President (Power Generation Company), Chubu President and Director Satoru Katsuno and General Manager and Head of the Doha office Naoki Miyoshi.
Also present were Chubu Electric Power Honorary Adviser Toshio Mita, Adviser at Chubu Eumio Kawaguchi, Chief Operating Officer of the Business Planning Office Tetsuya Watabe, and Secretary General of Japan-Qatar Friendship Association (JQFA) Noritaka Sakakibara.
The latest signing would facilitate the stage for more intense co-operation between Chubu and Qatar power companies between April 1, 2017 and March 31, 2019.
Recalling the 10th anniversary of the active co-operation between the three companies, Dr al-Sada reminded that it also coincided with the completion of two decades of Japan's importing of liquefied natural gas (LNG) from Qatar.
Terming the relations between the two countries as extremely valuable to each other, the minister hoped more channels of co-operation beneficial to each other would be opened in coming years.
Also speaking, Kozo Ban said Chubu Electric Power had partnered with QEWC and Kahramaa significantly over the last decade and engineers from Qatar had come for extensive training in their facilities. "Three engineers from Qatar received 10 weeks training in our facilities at Kawagoe thermal station and it was a good opportunity for both the countries to understand the real requirements of each other," he said while recalling that Japanese engineers were also on a two-week work visit at Ras Abu Fontas.
Ban said safety management and quality control at the plants in Qatar were the two areas their engineers were asked to look into.
Similarly, as part of the ongoing co-operation with Kahramaa, Chubu engineers are on periodical visits to the substations and worked on such areas as transmission, distribution, energy efficiency, quality control and renewable energy, he said.
While thanking Qatari officials for their support to joint activities, Ban said he was looking forward to long-term co-operation with this country in areas of power generation.
Thursday's ceremony, which was also graced by Minister for Energy and Industry HE Dr Mohamed bin Saleh al-Sada, Kahramaa President and Senior engineer Essa bin Hilal al-Kuwari and QEWC General Manager Fahd Mohamed al-Mohannadi, was attended by a host of officials of the Chubu Electric Power, including Kozo Ban, President (Power Generation Company), Chubu President and Director Satoru Katsuno and General Manager and Head of the Doha office Naoki Miyoshi.
Also present were Chubu Electric Power Honorary Adviser Toshio Mita, Adviser at Chubu Eumio Kawaguchi, Chief Operating Officer of the Business Planning Office Tetsuya Watabe, and Secretary General of Japan-Qatar Friendship Association (JQFA) Noritaka Sakakibara.
The latest signing would facilitate the stage for more intense co-operation between Chubu and Qatar power companies between April 1, 2017 and March 31, 2019.
Recalling the 10th anniversary of the active co-operation between the three companies, Dr al-Sada reminded that it also coincided with the completion of two decades of Japan's importing of liquefied natural gas (LNG) from Qatar.
Terming the relations between the two countries as extremely valuable to each other, the minister hoped more channels of co-operation beneficial to each other would be opened in coming years.
Also speaking, Kozo Ban said Chubu Electric Power had partnered with QEWC and Kahramaa significantly over the last decade and engineers from Qatar had come for extensive training in their facilities. "Three engineers from Qatar received 10 weeks training in our facilities at Kawagoe thermal station and it was a good opportunity for both the countries to understand the real requirements of each other," he said while recalling that Japanese engineers were also on a two-week work visit at Ras Abu Fontas.
Ban said safety management and quality control at the plants in Qatar were the two areas their engineers were asked to look into.
Similarly, as part of the ongoing co-operation with Kahramaa, Chubu engineers are on periodical visits to the substations and worked on such areas as transmission, distribution, energy efficiency, quality control and renewable energy, he said.
While thanking Qatari officials for their support to joint activities, Ban said he was looking forward to long-term co-operation with this country in areas of power generation.
